Jamaat warms up with violence
Jamaat-Shibir activists yesterday hurled handmade bombs at police and carried out arson and vandalism at different places in the country on the eve of their two-day countrywide hartal beginning today....
View ArticleRights activists demand release of Adilur
Prominent civil society members, mainly rights activists, yesterday condemned the arrest of Odhikar Secretary Adilur Rahman Khan and demanded his immediate release. In a statement, 34 rights activists...
View ArticleHC stays remand for Odhikar secy
The High Court yesterday stayed the five-day remand granted by a lower court on Sunday for interrogation of Odhikar Secretary Adilur Rahman Khan. The HC also asked the authorities concerned to send him...
View ArticleEC asked to stop polls
The LGRD ministry has asked the Election Commission not to hold the overdue elections to eight municipalities, raising questions if the Awami League wants to avoid elections after its shocking defeat...
View ArticleGovt ads taken off from many
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday rejected some ministers’ requests for retaining until the next election the possession of the grabbed billboards in the capital advertising government’s success...
View ArticleGovt appeals for death penalty
The government has appealed to the Supreme Court seeking death penalty for convicted war criminal Ghulam Azam and a ban on Jamaat-e-Islami, of which he was the chief. The appeal was filed yesterday...
View ArticleEU presses political, religious freedom in Sri Lanka
The European Union yesterday expressed concern at the state of political and religious freedom in Sri Lanka after a deadly army crackdown on a protest and the vandalising of a mosque. The EU urged Sri...
View ArticleBicycle bomb kills two in SW Pakistan: officials
A bomb planted on a bicycle killed at least two people and wounded another in the restive province of Baluchistan in southwest Pakistan on Monday, officials said. “At least two people were killed and a...
View ArticleCameroon former health minister gets 20 years for graft
A Cameroonian court has sentenced a former health minister to 20 years in prison for corruption over a fake contract to deliver mosquito nets to hospitals, legal sources said yesterday. The country’s...
View ArticleTwo dead, several injured in Norway bus crash
Two people were killed and several seriously injured on Monday when two buses, one Norwegian and one Swedish with foreign tourists aboard, collided in western Norway, local authorities said. The NTB...
View ArticleOpposition proposes Syria transition roadmap
Syrian opposition activists, including National Coalition members, have drawn up a roadmap to achieve national reconciliation and justice for “all of Syria’s victims,” a statement said yesterday. The...
View ArticleNigerian mosque attack kills 44
Suspected Islamic militants have killed 44 people praying at a mosque in north-east Nigeria, the latest in a spate of violence blamed on religious extremists in the country. The killings occurred on...
View ArticlePalestine-Israel peace talks face collapse
Israel is moving forward with a plan to build nearly 900 new settlement housing units in east Jerusalem, an official said yesterday, in a move that angered Palestinians a day before the sides were to...
View ArticleRooftop villa to be demolished within 15 days
A man who made his fortune in traditional medicine spent six years building his own private mountain peak and luxury villa atop a high-rise apartment block in China’s capital. Now, authorities are...
View Article3 women ‘militants’ arrested
Three women suspected of militancy were arrested from the Patuakhali’s Kalikapur area around 4:00pm yesterday. They were identified as Ruma Khatun, 25 from Meherpur, Sabia Sultana, 23 from Jhenidah and...
View ArticleGovt to rehabilitate 50,000 families
The government will build multi-storey buildings in all administrative centres from upazilas to divisional headquarters for rehabilitating landless distressed families. The Executive Committee of the...
View ArticleDefence gets more time for arguments
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday allowed the defence of war crimes accused Salauddin Quader Chowdhury one more hour to complete their argument by today’s morning session. The defence...
View ArticleMueen was among Al-Badr abductors
Iftekhar Haider Chowdhury, nephew of martyr Prof Mofazzal Haider Chowdhury, yesterday testified that Chowdhury Mueen Uddin along with other Al-Badr men had abducted his uncle during the Liberation War...
View ArticleBhola suffers outage for four days
Around two million people, including 86,000 listed power consumers, in Bhola have been suffering from a blackout for over three days as several generators, installed by Indian company Alstom, went...
View ArticleRony denied bail again
Awami League lawmaker Golam Maula Rony’s bail in connection with an attempted murder case has been denied again. The case was filed against the Patuakhali-3 lawmaker on July 20 hours after he beat up...
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